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By Erika KinetzASSOCIATED PRESS • Thursday November 22, 2012 6:06 AM

Enlarge ImageRequest to buy this photoREUTERSA sand sculpture in Odisha, India, depicts Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, who was hanged yesterday for the 2008 attack, known as 26/11 in India, which killed 166 people.

MUMBAI, India — India executed the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai terror attack
early yesterday, four years after Pakistani gunmen blazed through India’s financial capital,
killing 166 people and throwing relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors into a tailspin.

Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani citizen, was hanged in secrecy at a jail in Pune, a city near
Mumbai.

News of the execution was widely cheered in India, with political parties organizing public
celebrations and some people setting off firecrackers. But for those more deeply touched by the
events of 26/11, as the attack is known here, the hanging offered only a partial catharsis.

“This is an incomplete justice as the masterminds and main handlers of 26/11 are still
absconding,” said Kavita Karkare, the widow of Hemant Karkare, the chief of Mumbai’s anti-terrorism
squad who was killed while pursuing Kasab. “They should also be hanged.”

Indian officials accuse Pakistan’s intelligence agency of working with the militant group
Lashkar-e-Taiba to plan the attack — an allegation Islamabad denies.Indian authorities faced public
pressure to execute Kasab quickly, and the government fast-tracked the appeal and execution
process, which can take decades.

Kasab and nine other gunmen entered Mumbai by boat on Nov. 26, 2008. Carrying cellphones,
grenades and automatic weapons, they fanned out across the city, targeting two luxury hotels, a
Jewish center, a tourist restaurant and a train station.